Titles will be added when they fall off "the last 10 films I've seen."
Slashes indicate repeat viewings. Titles prefaced by a star were seen on
projected video in a theatrical setting, and those prefaced by a plus sign
on home video. The new release section includes 1999 releases that I caught
up with before the deadline for Mike D'Angelo's survey. All titles are
American unless otherwise indicated. Films under 30 minutes will be labelled
{S} and those between 30 and 70 minutes {M}. Only films over 30 minutes
are rated.

WHAT THE RATINGS MEAN

**** Masterpiece

***1/2 Excellent

***1/4 Very good

*** Pretty good but highly flawed

**1/2 Mediocre but not without merit

** Pretty bad

*1/2 Awful

* A superhuman amount of patience was required to sit
through it

0 Walked out

NEW RELEASES

ADRENALINE DRIVE (Shinobu Yaguchi, Japan) ***

AN AFFAIR OF LOVE (Frédéric Fonteyne, France) ***

AIMEE & JAGUAR (Max Farberbock, Germany) **1/2

ALICE AND MARTIN (André Téchiné, France) ***

ALMA (Ruth Leitman) ***

ALMOST FAMOUS (Cameron Crowe) ***

/ALONE/ (Erick Zonca, France, 1996) {M} ***

AMERICAN PSYCHO (Mary Harron) **1/2

THE ART OF AMALIA (Bruno de Almeida) 0

THE BALLAD OF RAMBLIN' JACK (Aiyana Elliott) ***1/4

BAMBOOZLED (Spike Lee) **

/BEAU TRAVAIL/ (Claire Denis, France) ****

BEFORE NIGHT FALLS (Julian Schnabel) **1/2

BENJAMIN SMOKE (Jem Cohen/Peter Sillen) ***

BEST IN SHOW (Christopher Guest) **1/2

BILLY ELLIOT (Stephen Daldry, UK) ***

BOILER ROOM (Ben Younger) ***

+BOOKWARS (Jason Rosette) ***

BOOTMEN (Dein Perry, Australia) **

BOSSA NOVA (Bruno Barreto, Brazil) **

THE BRIDGE (Gerard Depardieu/Frederic Auburtin, France) ***

BRING IT ON (Peyton Reed) ***

BUT FOREVER IN MY MIND (Gabriele Muccino, Italy) ***

THE CARRIERS ARE WAITING (Benoît Mariage, Belgium) ***

CAST AWAY (Robert Zemeckis) **1/2

CECIL B. DEMENTED (John Waters) ***

CHARLIE'S ANGELS (McG) ***

CHICKEN RUN (Peter Lord/Nick Park, UK) ***

CHUCK & BUCK (Miguel Arteta) ***1/2

CLAIRE DOLAN (Lodge Kerrigan) ***1/2

THE COLOR OF PARADISE (Majid Majidi, Iran) *1/2

CRIMINAL LOVERS (François Ozon, France) **1/2

CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee, Taiwan) ***

CROUPIER (Mike Hodges, UK) ***1/4

THE CUP (Khyentse Norbu, Bhutan) **

DANCER IN THE DARK (Lars von Trier, Denmark/Sweden/France) **1/2

THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION PART III (Penelope Spheeris) ***

+DETROIT ROCK CITY (Adam Rifkin) **1/2

+DICK (Andrew Fleming) ***

DIVINE TRASH (Steve Yeager) ***

DREAM OF LIGHT (Victor Erice, Spain, 1992) ***1/2

DR. T & THE WOMEN (Robert Altman) **

DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? (Danny Leiner) **

+EARTH (Deepa Mehta, India) **1/2

EAST-WEST (Régis Wargnier, France/Russia) **1/2

8 1/2 WOMEN (Peter Greenaway, UK) **

ERIN BROCKOVICH (Steven Soderbergh) ***

+/eXistenZ/ (David Cronenberg, Canada) ***

FASTPITCH (Jeremy Spear) **1/2

+THE FILTH AND THE FURY (Julien Temple, UK) ***1/4

THE FIVE SENSES (Jeremy Podeswa, Canada) **

42 UP (Michael Apted, UK) ***

FRAGMENTS * JERUSALEM (Ron Havilio, Israel, 1986-1996) ***1/4

GENDERNAUTS (Monika Treut) ***

GEORGE WASHINGTON (David Gordon Green) ***1/4

GETTING TO KNOW YOU (Lisanne Skyler) ***

GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI (Jim Jarmusch) ***

GIRLFIGHT (Karyn Kusama) ***

GIRL, INTERRUPTED (James Mangold) **1/2

GIRL ON THE BRIDGE (Patrice Leconte, France) **1/2

GLADIATOR (Ridley Scott) ***1/4

A GOOD BABY (Katherine Dieckmann) **1/2

HAMLET (Michael Almereyda) ***

HIGH FIDELITY (Stephen Frears) ***

HOLLOW MAN (Paul Verhoeven) ***

THE HOUSE OF MIRTH (Terence Davies, UK/USA) ***1/2

HUMANITE (Bruno Dumont, France) ***1/2

HUMAN REMAINS (Jay Rosenblatt) {M} ***

HUMAN RESOURCES (Laurent Cantet, France) ***1/4

THE IDIOTS (Lars von Trier, Denmark) ***1/2

IT ALL STARTS TODAY (Bertrand Tavernier, France) ***

JESUS' SON (Alison MacLean) ***

JOE GOULD'S SECRET (Stanley Tucci) ***

JOURNEY TO THE SUN (Yesim Ustaoglu, Turkey) **

JUDY BERLIN (Eric Mendelsohn) **1/2

+THE KESTREL'S EYE (Mikael Kristerssen, Sweden) *

KIKUJIRO (Takeshi Kitano, Japan) **1/2

KIPPUR (Amos Gitai, Israel) ***

KING OF THE JEWS (Jay Rosenblatt) {S}

+KIRIKOU AND THE SORCERESS (Michel Ocelot, France) ***

/THE LEGEND OF DRUNKEN MASTER/ (Lau Ka Leung, Hong Kong, 1994) ***1/4

LIES (Jang Sun-Woo, South Korea) ***1/4

THE LITTLE GIRL WHO SOLD THE SUN (Djibril Diop Mambety, Senegal){M}
***

THE LITTLE THIEF (Erick Zonca, France) ***

LOVE & BASKETBALL (Gina Prince-Bythewood) ***

MADADAYO (Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1993) **

MEET THE PARENTS (Jay Roach) ***1/4

ME, MYSELF & IRENE (Bobby & Peter Farrelly) **1/2

MIFUNE (Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Denmark) **

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 (John Woo) **1/2

NEW WATERFORD GIRL (Allan Moyle, Canada) ***

THE NINTH GATE (Roman Polanski, France/Spain) ***

NON-STOP (Sabu, Japan, 1996) ***

+NOT OF THIS WORLD (Giuseppe Piccioni, Italy) **1/2

NOT ONE LESS (Zhang Yimou, China) ***

NOWHERE TO HIDE (Lee Myung-Se, South Korea) **1/2

NURSE BETTY (Neil LaBute) **

O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (Joel Coen) **

ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER (Kevin MacDonald, UK) ***

/POLA X/ (Léos Carax, France) **1/2

POLLOCK (Ed Harris) **1/2

PRAISE (John Curran, Australia) ***

PSYCHO BEACH PARTY (Robert Lee King) **1/2

RATCATCHER (Lynne Ramsay, UK) **1/2

THE RED STUFF (Leo de Boer, the Netherlands) **

RESTRICTED (Jay Rosenblatt) {S}

ROAD TRIP (Todd Phillips) **1/2

SASAYAKI: MOONLIGHT WHISPERS (Akihiko Shiota, Japan) ***1/4

SCARY MOVIE (Keenen Ivory Wayans) *1/2

SCREAM 3 (Wes Craven) ***

SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE (E. Elias Merhige) ***

SHORT OF BREATH (Jay Rosenblatt, 1990) {S}

THE 6TH DAY (Roger Spottiswoode) **1/2

SMALL TIME CROOKS (Woody Allen) *1/2

THE SMELL OF BURNING ANTS (Jay Rosenblatt, 1994) {S}

SOLAS (Benito Zambrano, Spain) ***

SOLOMON & GAENOR (Paul Morrison, UK) ***

SOUND AND FURY (Josh Aronson) **1/2

+SOUTHPAW (Liam McGrath, Ireland) *1/2

SPACE COWBOYS (Clint Eastwood) ***

+THE SPECIALIST (Eyal Sivan, Israel/France) ***

SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM (Craig Baldwin) ***1/4

+STATE AND MAIN (David Mamet) **1/2

STEAL THIS MOVIE (Robert Greenwald) **

+STIR OF ECHOES (David Koepp) **1/2

SUNSHINE (Istvan Szabo, Hungary/Canada) **

SUZHOU RIVER (Lou Ye, China) **1/2

TABOO (Nagisa Oshima, Japan) **1/2

+THE TERRORIST (Santosh Sivan, India) **1/2

THE THIRD MIRACLE (Agnieszka Holland) **

THIRTEEN DAYS (Roger Donaldson) **1/2

TIMECODE (Mike Figgis) **

+A TIME FOR DRUNKEN HORSES (Bahman Ghobadi, Iran) **1/2

+/TIME REGAINED/ (Raul Ruiz, France) ***

TOO MUCH SLEEP (David Maquiling) *1/2

TRAFFIC (Steven Soderbergh) ***

+TRANS (Julian Goldberger) **1/2

TREASURE ISLAND (Scott King) **1/2

TRIXIE (Alan Rudolph) **

TWO WOMEN (Tahmine Milani, Iran) **

UNBREAKABLE (M. Night Shyamalan) ***1/2

UP AT THE VILLA (Philip Haas) **

URBANIA (Jon Shear) ***1/4

THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (Sofia Coppola) ***

WATER DROPS ON BURNING ROCKS (François Ozon, France) **1/2

WHEN THE DAY BREAKS (Wendy Tilby/Amanda Forbis, Canada) {S}

THE WIND WILL CARRY US (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran) ***

+WINTER SLEEPERS (Tom Tykwer, Germany) **1/2

THE WOMAN CHASER (Robinson Devor) ***

WONDERLAND (Michael Winterbottom, UK) ***1/2

X (Rintaro, Japan, 1996) **1/2

X-MEN (Bryan Singer) **1/2

THE YARDS (James Gray) ***

YI YI (Edward Yang, Taiwan) ****

YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (Kenneth Lonergan) ***1/4

These are recent (1997-2000) as-yet-undistributed films that I caught
up with at festivals, retrospectives, advance screenings or on video, as
well as films made within the past ten years by major directors that only
premiered in New York this year. Titles prefaced by a star are videos that
I saw projected in a theatrical setting. I'm only rating films that run
at least 30 minutes. Some of these will be released commercially next year.